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Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock 307

KindMind writes "CNet has pictures of a planned 10,000 year clock to be built in eastern Nevada by the Long Now Foundation. From the article: 'Running under its own power, the clock is an experiment in art, science, and engineering. The six dials on the face of this machine will represent the year, century, horizons, sun position, lunar phase, and the stars of the night sky over a 10,000-year period. Likely to span multiple generations and evolutions in culture, the thinking and design put into the monument makes it a moving sculpture as beautiful as it is complex.' This was reviewed on Slashdot in 2005. Really cool pictures, including one of a mechanical 'binary computer' that converts the pendulum into positions on the dial."

Comment Re:hmm... (Score 1) 235

Yeah, I searched a bit more, and The Algonquin Wits would be from the Algonquin round table, which was from 1919-1929, so the Mussolini book is probably correct. This is going to bug me enough that since there's no clear answer on the internet I'll head to the library.

TO ANYONE COMING FROM A SEARCH ENGINE: my quote is probably incorrect, and I don't have a copy of The Algonquin Wits to look up the correct answer. Also, why are you looking up information on the internet, which was clearly created to spread vicious rumors and slander, half-truths, parroting stuff someone else said as verbatim, misattributes, and all other manner of general dishonesty.

There, I've served my penance.
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Journal Journal: Life expectancy data

Ages = [0,1,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100;]
NumberSurviving= [100000,99303,99180,99105,99008,98672,98204,97740,97196,96419,95255,93563,91188,87711,82607,75335,65310,52178,36304,20052,8028,2095;]
Fitted Quadric curve to NumberSurviving*Ages = [0.00057514,-0.18787,14.659,-403.48,1.014e+005;]
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Journal Journal: A sorted list of the elements in the earth's crust

For the first time, on the internet, a list of the most common elements, with their abundance in ppm by weight.

O 460000
Si 270000
Al 82000
Fe 63000
Ca 50000
Mg 29000
Na 23000
K 15000
Ti 6600
C 1800

H 1500
Mn 1100
P 1000
F 540
S 420
Sr 360
Ba 340
V 190
Cl 170
Cr 140

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